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Frank Grell

Position
Frank Grell helps clients navigate distressed situations related to restructuring or insolvency. He chairs the German Restructuring & Special Situations Practice and served as Local Department Chair of the German Finance Department. Mr. Grell has earned a strong reputation from clients and leading publications for his empathetic approach and ability to craft pragmatic and commercial solutions in high-pressure or crisis situations.
Mr. Grell advises:
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- Companies, management, and shareholders in a financial or operational crisis
- Creditors in all phases of financial restructurings, including debt-equity swaps, share pledge enforcements, and insolvency plan proceedings
- Investors on the acquisition of distressed companies and on restructuring, rescue financing, or refinancing transactions, including debt-equity swaps
- Insolvency administrators on M&A, restructurings, or disputes
Complementing his transactional work, he also represents parties in claw-back and liability cases.
Mr. Grell is a board member of TMA Germany e.V. and of Norddeutsches Insolvenzforum e.V. (Insolvency Forum of Northern Germany).
He regularly speaks and writes about insolvency and restructuring matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Deutschland > Restrukturierung und Insolvenz > Restrukturierung
(Führende Partner)Latham & Watkins LLPs Restructuring & Special Situations-Praxis verfügt über umfassende Expertise in der Verhandlung und Umsetzung finanzieller und operativer Restrukturierungen, einschließlich derer im grenzüberschreitenden Kontext, sowie über Beratungskompetenzen in den Bereichen Insolvenz und Distressed M&A. Frank Grell, der sich gemäß dem teamweiten Beratungsansatz schwerpunktmäßig mit finanziellen und operativen Restrukturierungen beschäftigt, dies jedoch mit Expertise in der insolvenzbezogenen Prozessführung und der Refinanzierungsberatung ergänzt, leitet das Team, auf das regelmäßig Schuldner, Gläubiger und Insolvenzverwalter zurückgreifen. Im Mai 2024 verlor man die Restrukturierungsexperten Jörn Kowalewski, Ulrich Klockenbrink und Counsel Hendrik Hauke an Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
Germany > Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring
(Leading partners)Latham & Watkins LLP‘s Restructuring & Special Situations practice offers longstanding expertise in financial and operational restructuring, including cross-border restructuring, as well as in insolvency matters and distressed M&A. Practice head Frank Grell also focuses on financial and operational restructuring and complements this with expertise in insolvency-related litigation and refinancing, which is regularly called upon by debtors, creditors and insolvency administrators. In May 2024, the restructuring experts Jörn Kowalewski, Ulrich Klockenbrink and counsel Hendrik Hauke moved to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Germany > Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring
- Restructuring Germany > Restructuring and insolvency
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Antitrust
- Corporate and M&A > Corporate
- Information technology > Data protection
- Capital markets > Equity capital markets
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Tax
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Banking and finance > Lending and borrowing
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Capital markets > Equity capital markets
- Capital markets > Equity capital markets
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Arbitration (including international arbitration)
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Corporate and M&A > Corporate
- Capital markets > Debt capital markets
- Banking and finance > Financial services: regulatory
- Banking and finance > Fintech
- Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences
- Information technology > IT transactions and outsourcing
- Corporate and M&A > M&A
- Restructuring and insolvency > Restructuring
- Industry focus > Energy
- Capital markets > Equity capital markets
- Real estate and construction > Real estate
- Tax
- Compliance > Compliance
- Information technology > Information technology and digitalisation
- Compliance > Internal investigations
- Employment
- Private equity > Transactions